Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-05-19
HOW TO PROTECT TREES.

ment are trees. Kansas people have need
to save all the trees they have and raise
as many more as possible. Trees beauti-
fy the rural landscape quite as much as
they adorn cities. 1t is a pity to have
them destroyed by insects when it can
be prevented. In some towns caterpil-
lars and worms are SO numerous as to in
terfere with comfort of people on the
sidewalk and in the street. Take the
maple worm as an example. They drop
from trees by thousands, often falling on
persons passing under the trees. In
many cases they leave the trees almost
if not quite defoliated That Injuries the
trees, but it does not diminish the num-
Der of destroying insects.
The season is at hand when this process
will be repeated. People ought to pre-
pare for making vigorous and effective
war on the worms when they appear.
The best remedy yet discovered in such
cases is London purple. It is certain
death to all manner of leaf eaters if put
upon their feed. The Kansas Farmer
says that in preparing the poison it is bet
ter to mix little wheat -four with it.
Take about three quarts of flour and run
it through very fine seive attached to
funnel, not dry, however, but wash it
through with water. The -four in passing
throug the seive, is divided SO finely that
it does not afterwards appear in Jumps,
but is diffused in the water Do this in
the vessel, cask, barrel or whatever is to
contain the prepared poison. The -four
serves to make the poison more adhesive
to the leaves to which it is applied. At
ter the -four is thus washed into the YES
sci, then wash in the London Purple in
the same way. The purple and the flour
may be mixed dry and then washed
through the sieve together, if desirable,
but more flour than is needed is likely to
get through by this method. The Lon
don purple may be used alone with the
water, but it is less effective, because it
does not adhere so readily to the leaves.
Use the proportions here given in any
quantity of mixture needed. Eight
ounces of the poison to forty gallons of
water is equivalent to one ounce of poi
son to five gollons of water, and so on
down for less quantities, dividing the
flour in like manner
In applying the mixture it ought to be
done in a manner approaching mist as
near as possible. Don't drench the trees.
Use force pump and hose with spray
nozzle. The Cyclone or eddy cham
Der" nozzle is good Throw upward and
let fall on the leaves like fine rain; also
spray well among the leaves from below
Where the work to be done is only
smatter, brush or whisp is better than
nothing But remember, all the time,
that London purple is virulent poison.
The time to use it is when the insects be-
gin their work-about this time and with
in two or three weeks to come. Then,
again, later in the season whenever an
other attack Is made, if one should fol- |
low in the same season. It is well to give |
two or thres sprayings few days apart,
SO as to take in the later broods, for the |
poison does not destroy the eggs.
Where great deal of work ia to be !
done, a tank can be placed on wagon,
filed with poison and drawn about under |
or beside the trees. For high trees, or
where the spray must be thrown long
distance, the Nixon nozzle is said to be |
Capital.